《大学英语扩展阅读教程》系列丛书根据《大学英语课程教学要求》(试行)的精神和要求编写而成，本套丛书寓语言于素养教育之中，把枯燥的英语阅读变成百科知识的涉猎，使英语阅读不再枯燥。拥有此套丛书，学生就仿佛拥有了一个小型百科知识书架。

本套丛书共分三册，第一册以文化艺术类文章为主，第二册以科技类文章为主，第三册以人文社科类文章为主。

本书为该系列丛书之一的第二册分册。

第一部分 技巧导航

 一、阅读过程中的猜词技巧

 1．利用构词法知识猜测词义

 1)利用复合法(composition)猜测词义

 2)利用转化法(conversion)猜测词义

 3)利用派生法(derivation)猜测词义

 4)利用逆成法(back formation)猜测词义

 2．利用文章中的解释说明猜测词义

 1)根据定义猜测词义

 2)根据同位语猜测词义

 3)根据定语从句猜测词义

 4)根据重述猜测词义

 5)根据举例猜测词义

 3．利用词与词之间的语义关系猜测词义

 1)根据同义关系猜测词义

 2)根据反义关系猜测词义

 3)根据上下义关系猜测词义

 4．利用语篇结构猜测词义

 1)根据一整段猜测词义

 2)根据整篇猜测词义

 5．利用状语从句猜测词义

 6．利用标点符号猜测词义

 7．利用中文提示猜测词义

 8．利用常识和经验猜测词义

 二、联想思维——记忆英语单词的有效方法

 1．联想思维法的科学依据

 2．如何利用联想思维法记忆单词

 3．恒心和毅力是记忆单词的关键

 三、相关资料：图式理论

第二部分 篇章阅读

UNIT 1

 Text A Microchip, Testament to the Immense Power of Tiny Things

 Text B Growth of Wireless Internet Opens New Path for Thieves

 Text C Artificial Intelligence

UNIT 2

 Text A Unidentified Flying Object

 Text B Satellites Free the Mobile Phone

 Text C For the First Time, a Spacecraft Impacts with a Comet

UNIT 3

 Text A Technology to Meld Chips into Humans Draws Closer

 Text B Ultralight Computers

 Text C Translation Tools

UNIT 4

 Text A Bunker Mentality

 Text B Team Claims Success with Rocket Launch

 Text C Fee-based Satellite Radio

UNIT 5

 Text A Researchers Find a Genetic Link to Obesity

 Text B Tobacco Helps Cancer Cells Evade Destruction

 Text C Feel Blue? Go Green

UNIT 6

 Text A Live or Die

 Text B Genetically Modified Foods Feed the World?

 Text C Animals Laughed Long Before Humans, Study Says

UNIT 7

 Text A SARS Virus No Longer Such a Mystery

 Text B Study Says Breast-Cancer Treatments Increase Survival Rates

 Text C The Inanimate Environment

UNIT 8

 Text A Perspective on Human Behavior

 Text B More Attention on Man's Health Care

 Text C A New Chip Design May Lead to New Sight

UNIT 9

 Text A Superpills with a One-two Punch

 Text B Diet Pills: Fen-phen and Redux

 Text C Exercise Myths

UNIT 10

 Text A Depression Study Finds Hope in Different Treatments, at Least for Some People

 Text B While Other Threats Make the News, Heat May Be Nature's Deadliest Killer ...

 Text C How Humans Are These Creatures?

UNIT 11

 Text A Dead Mixer = Alcohol + Tobacco

 Text B Health Regulation for Animals

 Text C Gene and Giving up Smoking

UNIT 12

 Text A Is the Earth Getting Hotter?

 Text B Weather: Tornado Science, in a Land with Plenty of Experience

 Text C Phone Firms Tapping into Rural Areas

UNIT 13

 Text A World No Tobacco Day: A Chance for Smokers to Give Their Bodies a Cigarette

 Break

 Text B Treatment Developed for Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms

 Text C Food for Thought: How Vitamins (Once Spelled “Vitamines”) Are Important to

 Health

UNIT 14

 Text A Clean Energy

 Text B Wearable Computers You Can Slip into

 Text C Skiers Take to Man-made Slopes

UNIT 15

 Text A What Happens to Bees in Winter?

 Text B A Little Red-eyed Frog Could Hold the Key to Ending the Scourge of AIDS

 Text C Animals "Speak" Many Strange Languages

UNIT 16

 Text A New Planetary Puzzles

 Text B Your Brain on Drugs

 Text C The Race against Avian Flu

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